PhD Research

The research concerned the use of linguistic grammars to perform harmonic
analysis of jazz.

The core thesis was as follows:

Music has a syntax like that of natural language

Parsing can reveal structures important to musical understanding

Parsing techniques adapted from NLP can be useful for music processing tasks

I looked specifically at the structures of tonal harmony,
though others are important to musical understanding.
I performed harmonic analysis automatically using techniques adapted
from natural language parsing.